About Seger, Hermann , source: ceramic porcelain and ceramic brands lexicon Report 1885-1935 Europe ( mainland ) Page 444 / 2-472 : Seger, Hermann : Poznan 12/26/1839 - 10/30/1893 Berlin chemist , D. Study of Chemistry at the Royal . Commercial Academy in Berlin . Conn. . Head of a chemical company in Neuwied. 1868: PhD in Rostock ( Dr. phil. ) . Active in Sweden . From 1869, he is concerned with the study in Berlin ceramic technologies; laboratory staff is the "German pottery and Ziegler newspaper " and takes over after the death of the publisher from 1871 Radaktion the newspaper. 1876 ​​: Establishment of a research laboratory of Ceramics in Berlin. Editor of the " clay industry newspaper" . Lecturer at the Royal . Commercial Academy . 1878-1890 : Head of the newly Chemical- Technical Research Institute of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory , Berlin . 1884 exhibition at Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts , vessels with oxblood glaze. Development of " Seger cone " ( for temperature measurement and control of the combustion curve ) and 1880 of the " Seger porcelain " ( soft-paste porcelain ) . Decisive influence on the development of KPM , Berlin and the tot. Ceramic industry.